Dead Ringers
1988 · TMDB 7.1
Directed by David Cronenberg
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Why it matters
Cronenberg casts Jeremy Irons as twin gynaecologists whose shared practice and shared lovers collapse into surgical delusion. The film's cold instruments and warm reds make the clinic a place of intimacy and disintegration at once.
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Released
- 1988-09-23
- Studio
- Mantle Clinic II
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.1
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